On the evening of August 14, Xiaomi's new product launch conference was held at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, and Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, gave his fourth annual public speech, sharing his experience and insights on several key growth in the past 36 years. At the press conference, Lei Jun officially announced the strategic upgrade of Xiaomi's science and technology, and announced Xiaomi's scientific and technological philosophy: choose technical fields with long-term value for human civilization, and adhere to long-term continuous investment.
At this conference, Xiaomi announced a new generation of folding screen flagship Xiaomi MIX Fold 3, the king of performance Redmi K60 Extreme Edition two new mobile phones, as well as the super large tablet Xiaomi Mi Tablet 6 Max 14, Xiaomi Mi Band 8 Pro, the new bionic quadruped robot CyberDog2 as a surprise appearance of the press conference "One more thing". At the same time, Xiaomi officially announced that the large model on the mobile phone terminal side was initially run, and Xiaoai upgraded the AI large model and opened the invitation test.
The appearance of a series of blockbuster products and technologies fully demonstrates Xiaomi's understanding and ability upgrade in science and technology leadership and aesthetic leadership in recent years, as well as all-round breakthroughs in key technology fields. Lei Jun said that a brand new Xiaomi is full of hope and sailing to the sea of stars of dreams.
Xiaomi's technology strategy upgrades, focusing on long-term value and adhering to long-term investment
In the face of the great changes brought about by a new round of industrial and technological changes, Xiaomi officially announced the upgrading of its scientific and technological strategy based on thinking about the future, and announced its own scientific and technological philosophy: choose technical fields with long-term value for human civilization, and adhere to long-term continuous investment.
"We focus on long-term value and commit to the long term. Only in this way can we build core competitiveness and moats, and truly become a great technology enterprise. Lei Jun said that Xiaomi's scientific and technological exploration should not only be valuable to human life now, but also contribute to the creation, progress and development of human beings in the future.
Xiaomi disclosed four key paths and principles for the upgrading of science and technology strategy, namely, deep cultivation of underlying technology, long-term continuous investment, deep integration of software and hardware, and comprehensive AI empowerment.
In the past 13 years since its establishment, Xiaomi has attached great importance to technology research and development, and years of technology precipitation are also moving towards a key leap from quantitative change to qualitative change. The proposal of "deep cultivation of underlying technology and long-term continuous investment" further clarifies the core direction of Xiaomi's adherence to the iron law of "technology-oriented" and firm investment in the future.
At present, Xiaomi's technology research and development layout has entered 12 technical fields, including 5G mobile communication technology, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and based on intelligent manufacturing, it has entered robots, unmanned factories, intelligent electric vehicles, etc., with a total of 99 subdivisions. In terms of intellectual property rights, as of March 31 this year, Xiaomi's global authorized patents have exceeded 32,000. According to the ranking of effective global patent family enterprises with 5G standard essential patent claims released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Xiaomi's patent family accounted for 4.1%, entering the top ten in the world for the first time.
A series of breakthroughs in Xiaomi's self-developed technological innovation are inseparable from the continuous investment in research and development expenses over the years. It is reported that the compound annual growth rate of R&D investment in the past six years (2017-2022) is as high as 38.4%, and it is expected that Xiaomi's total R&D investment will exceed RMB 20 billion in 2023 and more than RMB 100 billion in the next five years (2022-2026).
For "deep integration of software and hardware, comprehensive AI empowerment", Xiaomi summarized it into a formula: (software × hardware) AI. Lei Jun said that the deep integration of software and hardware is the fundamental guarantee for providing users with a unique experience, and AI is the future productivity and one of the underlying tracks that Xiaomi has continued to invest in for a long time.
It is reported that since the establishment of the AI team in 2016, the Xiaomi artificial intelligence team has expanded 6 times in 7 years, and the number of personnel has reached more than 3,000. At the same time, Xiaomi AI's technical capabilities have covered many directions such as vision, acoustics, speech, NLP, knowledge graph, machine learning, large models, and multi-modality, and fully empowered multiple business sectors such as mobile phones, automobiles, AIoT, and robots.
In April this year, Xiaomi set up an AI large model team to fully embrace large models, and there are some application attempts one after another. One of the first applications of the large model is to upgrade the intelligent voice assistant Xiaoai to the large model version and open the invitation test.
According to reports, the main breakthrough direction of Xiaomi's large model technology is lightweight and local deployment, and Xiaomi is considering that priority is to achieve end-side running on mobile phones, so that everyone can better use large models on mobile phones.
It is worth mentioning that Xiaomi has made good progress in the large model with parameters within tens of billions and the large model on the mobile phone side, which is worth looking forward to. Among them, Xiaomi's self-developed large model with 6 billion parameters ranked first in the same parameter magnitude on the C-EVAL authoritative list, and ranked first in CMMU Chinese large model; Xiaomi's self-developed end-side large model has been running through the Snapdragon platform, and the effect of the self-developed 1.3 billion parameter end-side large model can be comparable to the industry's 6 billion parameter cloud large model in some scenarios.
Self-research and innovation are fully intersected, and a series of new scientific and technological products are released
This conference released a series of blockbuster new products, self-developed technological innovation comprehensive convergence, can be called the concentrated appearance of Xiaomi's scientific and technological innovation achievements in recent years.
Among them, Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 deeply integrates Xiaomi's interdisciplinary and multi-field capabilities in structure, materials, chips and other fields, which not only continues the thin and light genes of the previous work, but also innovatively realizes the coexistence of thin and light folding and comprehensive flagship experience, and defines a new standard in the second half of the folding screen with "thin and light all-round".
Compared to the previous generation, the Xiaomi Mi MIX Fold 3 is only 255g lighter, with a folding thickness of only 10.86 mm and an unfolded thickness of only 5.26 mm. This is mainly due to Xiaomi's self-developed keel shaft, which achieves "technology for space" with breakthrough innovation, and its thickness in the unfolded and folded states is reduced by 8.6% and 12.5% respectively, which can release 17% of the space in the hinge area, making the whole machine slimmer, releasing more stacking space in the inch-inch fuselage, so that the thin and all-round can be both.
The application of Xiaomi keel hinge also greatly improves the reliability of the whole machine, it adopts a three-stage linkage design, with up to 14 movable joints, effectively avoiding excessive deformation of the screen due to falling forces. Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 has also passed Rheinland's 500,000 fold worry-free certification, the first time to see the reliability standards of the straight board flagship. In addition, the Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 also provides a special version of the Xiaomi dragon scale fiber material, which is a space fiber composite material developed by Xiaomi, integrating high-hardness, high-toughness aramid fiber and ceramic fiber, and test data shows that its fall resistance strength is 36 times that of glass-ceramic.
Thanks to the design of the hinge structure and the breakthrough of Leica's optical imaging system, the Xiaomi Mi MIX Fold 3 has become the industry's only full-focal four-camera folding screen so far this year, setting a new benchmark for thin and light folding product imaging. The Xiaomi Mi MIX Fold 3 inherits the Leica image experience of the Mi 13 Ultra, and also innovatively introduces Leica hover photography, rear selfie, time-lapse video, external screen preview and other unique functions, which can be called "the best selfie lens in the thin and light folding screen".
In terms of battery life, Xiaomi Mi MIX Fold 3 is equipped with two Xiaomi surging batteries and three Xiaomi surging chips. According to the actual measurement of Xiaomi Lab, whether using the inner screen or the outer screen, the DOU battery life of the Xiaomi Mi MIX Fold 3 has reached 1.34 days, and the ultra-long battery life experience is far ahead of the iPhone and comparable to the straight board flagship.
"Close it, the experience is comparable to the iPhone 14 Pro Max; Open the folding screen to make the best. Lei Jun said that between the thin and light folding and the all-round flagship, the Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 has no shortcomings and no trade-offs, and truly realizes both.
At the press conference, the Redmi K60 Extreme Edition was also unveiled. As the pinnacle product of the K series positioned as the "king of performance", the K60 Extreme Edition is equipped with Dimensity 9200+ and the exclusive graphics chip X7, combined with the reloaded and upgraded Berserk Engine 2.0, which not only achieves the industry's highest running score of 1.77 million+, but also breaks through the native limitations of the game, bringing the new features of "Genshin" 144FPS superframe + 1.5K super-resolution concurrency, creating a new performance experience with no limits for performance players.
Redmi K60 Extreme Edition is also the first work launched by Redmi after opening the "post-performance era". Compared with the volume parameters, heap configuration, and spelling tuning in the pre-performance era, the post-performance era is represented by the berserk engine, with the user's real scene experience as the ruler, and the deep integration of software and hardware as the standard, and at the same time, there must be industry cooperation, upstream and downstream traction, and overall planning, which will lead the industry into a new stage of performance.
In addition to the two flagship mobile phones, the newly released bionic quadruped robot CyberDog2 is smarter and more bionic, and has evolved from the inside out. Compared to the previous generation, it is smaller, weighing only 8.9kg, which is close to the size of a Doberman. It is equipped with Xiaomi's self-developed CyberGear micromotor, which further enhances its athletic ability, supports continuous backflips, skateboard backflips, falls and climbs and other difficult movements, and the strength control is more refined, and the tofu will not break when touched continuously. At the same time, CyberDog2 is also equipped with an AI fusion perception and decision-making system, equipped with 19 sensors, so that it can hear, see, and perceive.
In addition, CyberDog2 has been open source to the greatest extent from the code and structural drawings, and also provides graphical programming and modular processing of various sensing capabilities. Based on the continuous open source ecosystem, the CyberDog family will attract more developers to participate, continuously promote the progress and improvement of bionic robots, and truly enter life and serve people in the future.
To this end, Xiaomi also announced that Guo Fan, director of the "Wandering Earth" series, has officially become the "Xiaomi Technology Humanistic Co-creator", working together to explore more robot application scenarios, and sincerely invites more scientists and artists to participate and explore the future of robots together.
To date, the CyberDog generation has entered 116 academic institutions and groups, participating in 452 research projects. Zhao Mingguo, director of the Robot Control Laboratory of Tsinghua University, spoke highly of it: "Xiaomi's insistence on investment and high open-source in the field of robotics has greatly promoted the overall development from scientific research to industry. ”
Cognitive breakthroughs lead to real growth, and the new Xiaomi is here
As a landmark event in the technology industry, Lei Jun's annual personal speech has entered its fourth year. The theme of this year's speech is "Growth", in which Lei Jun reviewed several key growth experiences in the past 36 years:
During his studies at Wuhan University, a copy of "Silicon Valley Fire" allowed Lei Jun to establish a lifelong dream and break it down into one goal after another; From the first college entrepreneurship to Kingsoft entrepreneurship, Lei Jun completed the transformation from programmer to manager; Founded Xiaomi, let Lei Jun's dream truly step into reality; In the past three years, the high-end exploration has also made phased breakthroughs, and Lei Jun summed up his biggest experience: only breakthroughs in understanding can bring real growth.
"People are great because of their dreams, and they grow because they persist in their dreams." Lei Jun said that only down-to-earth growth can enrich one's heart, have light in his eyes, and be full of strength at all times.
This conference is not only Lei Jun's annual personal speech, but also Xiaomi's "Science and Technology Spring Festival Gala" where Xiaomi focuses on technological innovation achievements, comprehensively showing the breakthrough and key growth achieved by Lei Jun and Xiaomi. With the upgrading of Xiaomi's technology strategy and the in-depth layout of cutting-edge fields such as AI large models and bionic robots, a new Xiaomi is taking great strides.
It is reported that the Xiaomi MIX Fold 3 new generation folding screen mobile phone is priced from 8999 yuan, and the 1TB version is 10999 yuan; Redmi K60 Extreme Edition starts from 2599 yuan, 24GB large memory version starts from 3599 yuan; The first price of Xiaomi Mi Tablet 6 Max 14 starts from 3599 yuan, the first set price starts from 3999 yuan, with a rare 14-inch large screen and top performance, and supports PC-level WPS, which can provide users with a better light office experience; Xiaomi Mi Band 8 Pro starts at 399 yuan, with a 1.74-inch AMOLED high-resolution high-brush large screen, independent GNSS five-star positioning, dual-channel monitoring module, multi-dimensional health management, etc., bringing a watch-level professional experience, and the whole machine lasts up to 14 days. The above products are all sold at 10 o'clock on August 16, and the first sale of all channels.
In addition, the bionic quadruped robot CyberDog2 has been officially put on sale, priced at 12,999 yuan.